Facebook Analyzes the Impact of Love On Their Business 37
c0lo writes "Facebook might understand your romantic prospects better than you do. In a blog post, the company's team of data scientists announced with hard numbers that hints at budding relationships before the relationships start. The two people enter a period of courtship, during which timeline posts increase. After the couple makes it official, their posts on each others' walls decrease—presumably because the happy two are spending more time together (and less on FB?!) A subsequent blog entry offers an insight on break-ups: it is the last of a series of 6 blogposts that ran last week on the "love" theme."
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Fuck Facebook.
Must be because you Like it and want to romance it.
But from the article, it sounds like MarcZ already knows how much you want to make love to his software.
Re: It's Been A Week (Score:1)
I wish APK was here to guide me with setting up my hosts file... I want all sites to point to beta.slashdot.org!
You people fear change too much. Bring on the new!
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I've not nothing against the new, but Beta thoroughly eviscerated the comment system. I could even live with the lack of decent moderation, I tend to read at -1 anyway, even if I do have everything below 1 folded. But the changes to the comment system destroy slashdot as a conversational medium. All the extra whitespace and huge wide sidebars cut the width of comments to 1/3 which makes long comments practically unreadable, and it sounds like you don't get any notification of replys. What, I'm supposed
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Cool. This is what we need - alternatives, for when Dice decides to go full retard and implement their horrid new system. Will the /. community fracture, or will most of it land somewhere else?
Similar effect on Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
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If you run out the time axis long enough, you'll see it more reflects a bathtub curve than 1/x. I.e., in a long enough relationship, there will inevitably be a dramatic rise in posting frequency. Usually this is an indicator of a pending failure. When you see the onset of this increase, it's best to implement some redundancy. It may accelerate the failure of the first component, but ensures no disruption in service.
An Old Quote (Score:5, Interesting)
Why are there so many sad love poems as opposed to happy ones? When you're happily in love there are better things to do than write poetry.
I suppose the same applies to Facebook postings - when you're happily in love, there's better things to do than write on someone's wall.
Facebook sabotages relationships? (Score:4, Funny)
So, as a corporation governed by the bottom line, should we be expecting Facebook to subtly sabotage budding relationships to stimulate Facebook participation?
Who needs magic mirrors anymore (Score:1)
Who is the fairest of them all?"
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Mark Zuckerberg. You should totally bang him. Just give me a moment to analyze your recent selfies to see if you qualify.
--Facebook
boycott? (Score:2, Interesting)
So am I the only person who is back after a week of choosing not to visit the site?
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Post volume seemed to be the same last week as it was the week before and this week thus far.
There was significantly less bitching about beta.
I still recommend alterslash.org for all your slashdot skimming needs.
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As long as guys want sex with a woman, she is in control.
She is more educated (60% of graduates), controls more wealth (80%), and makes the relationship decisions (70% of divorces are filed by women).
Guys need to step up. Go to college so you make more than she makes, get out of the basement and into the sunlight, eat healthier, exercise.
If you don't, she'll find someone who does and then it's later, loser.
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Is there a reference for the 70% of divorces are filed by women?
Oh hell.... (Score:2)
FB is looking into a match making service and testing the market... That's all this is. and if it works. MS will follow... no doubt claiming it was there first...... and that is a match made in...... well hell...
I think most of us figured this one out already. (Score:1)
Yeah, right (Score:2)